How to Use motley crew in a Sentence

motley crew

noun

• Our project is staffed by a motley crew of volunteers who have a wide variety of day jobs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2021
• Of course, the only thing your motley crew will actually be battling over is who gets the last piece of candy.
  — Kaitlin Stanford, Parents, 5 Oct. 2023
• The motley crew attends a Knicks game and goes shopping in the Big Apple, naturally.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 31 July 2023
• She’s had an enviable motley crew of doll friends who’ve stood by her through the decades, and her dollhouse mansions put Bel Air mega estates to shame.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 22 July 2023
• For a movie that was supposed to be about the end of the road for Marvel Studios’ deep-space motley crew, mid-credits and post-credits scenes were all about beginnings.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• Running to home base has never felt so urgent for this motley crew of beautifully flawed grown men.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
• The people who trap, neuter, and release them—a process known in the animal-rescue world as TNR—are a motley crew of passionate volunteers.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 5 July 2023
• Of course, the main event in any Agatha Christie thriller is the motley crew of suspects whose hidden motivations and connections eventually come to light.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• And with that, our motley crew SXSW dream team had been assembled: three journalists, a cameraman, and a six-year-old who couldn’t care less about cryptocurrency.
  — Ben McKenzie, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• In hopes of a return to her youthful days, Venetia finds community in an entertaining motley crew of lost souls.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• As a motley crew of resourceful out-of-towners and hooky-playing locals slowly gathered during the afternoon, the sun was out — the tattooed guns and buns were out — and normalcy reigned, for a few hours at least.
  — Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2023
• Prodigy follows a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search of a better future.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 June 2024
• The two college biology students and a pair of local high school seniors, one in a LeBron James jersey, hop in, along with a yellow village dog who will trot alongside the motley crew all night.
  — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• In the underworld, Catrina assembles a motley crew of the dead for their annual pilgrimage.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• There are many solid gags among this motley crew — the pirate forever chasing his false eye, the parrot trained to speak for its mute master, the series of fetching wenches who deliver slaps to Sparrow for past wrongs.
  — Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
• Our motley crew of three men and three women—all midlife professionals working in media, coaching, and the corporate worlds—convenes in Tamraght, a small, quietly touristy town full of surfers.
  — Nirpal Dhaliwal, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Mar. 2024
• As the host to a motley crew of Los Angeles natives and town-invading comedians, Mulaney seems to be testing the waters for what kind of comedy his audience wants from him now.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 11 May 2024
• How about design flaws of those animatronic exoskeletons?) and a motley crew of vandals bent on sabotage.
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• In the main plot, a motley crew arrives for the Asteroid Day and Junior Stargazer celebrations only to become stranded after a shocking alien encounter.
  — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
• This motley crew has potential, but Y2K miscalculates the impact of certain character deaths.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2024
• In addition to being the simplest animals, sponges have also outsourced much of their labor to a motley crew of microbes that live symbiotically inside of their bodies.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
• Zeus and his motley crew of immortals are as petty, territorial and devious as their human underlings.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
• And yet even with all the beauty of exploring Ireland's patchwork green countryside and pursuing the end of every rainbow, incredibly, Scahill managed to get more than a dozen performers to join our musical motley crew on tour.
  — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
• Viewers got a weekly explosion of boundary-pushing sketch comedy through irreverent skits delivered by a motley crew of characters with then-burgeoning hip-hop as the backdrop.
  — Starr Rocque, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2023
• Over decades, a motley crew of foresters, ecologists, and conservationists worked on afforestation, soil restoration, and water conservation projects within Auroville.
  — Mahima Jain, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
• Mixing familiar tropes with a behind-the-scenes look at this unusual family business, Circo Gómez will see one family working together to hone their acts, manage a motley crew of bizarre performers and keep their crumbling business from imploding.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
• But a centuries-long collaboration between a motley crew of explorers and astronomers eventually yielded longitude: imaginary vertical lines radiating north to south around the globe.
  — Emefa Addo Agawu, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024